Since the news was first shared that Maggie Rogers would be releasing a new EP, expectation and anticipation have been riding high across the blogosphere, with heady excitement surrounding ‘Alaska’ follow-ups ‘Dog Years’ and ‘On + Off’. With two new tracks ‘Better’ and ‘Color Song’, the Maryland native completes Now That The Light Is Fading EP. As a whole, it’s quintessentially Maggie Rogers. While ‘Color Song’ clearly pays homage to the folk roots as heard in earlier work Blood Ballet EP, it’s ‘Better’ that encapsulates her current influences the best. Introduced with a field recording of birds to remind us that Rogers is an outdoorsy artist at heart, the track then becomes overtly electronic with synthetic keys and drum pads, the tempo picking up heat as her passion for European dance music takes over. It’s another infectious piece of indie-dance-pop from an artist who has quality controlled her breakthrough from the start. - HT